Unreasonable

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When the breakup of Kathniel became a national issue, one can ask: Are we that emotional that such things become an object of the majority’s attention? Are we allowing emotions to take over our cognitive processing?

Emotional overwhelm according to goodtherapy.org is a state of being beset by intense emotion that is difficult to manage. It can affect your ability to think and act rationally. It could also prevent you from performing daily tasks.

There were those who cried helplessly. Social media were flooded with comments, memes and other sensitive and insensitive comments. Indeed, these platforms allowed everyone to become dancers, performers, newscasters and psychologists as well.

But what happens when you allow yourself to be too emotional over things that you resonate on breakups of film stars?

Emotional investment is actively the heart ruling the head, to give balance to that statement Friedrich Nietzche said “many find their hearts when they have lost their head” (Larkin, 2015).

There are people around us who gets angry over petty things. They blurt out words while reacting to the stimulus. They cannot control their emotions since they have invested too much on them.

A highly sensitive person (HSP) is a neurodivergent individual who is thought to have an increased or deeper central nervous system sensitivity to physical, emotional, or social stimuli (Scott, 2023).

There is no official diagnosis that HSP is a mental illness. High sensitivity is a personality trait that involves increased responsiveness to both positive and negative influences.

Research shows that a lack of parental warmth growing up may cause a child to develop high sensitivity and carry this trait into adulthood. The same goes for negative early childhood experiences (Chen, Moyzis, et al, 2011).

Too much investing on emotions leads to friction. Always, these persons cause some sort of disagreement around since they base their reactions to emotions and NOT reason.